Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald